Oddbean new post about login | logout Is there a reason Americans are not filling the streets as their President starts WWIII? #uspol
@LA Legault ✌🏻 I think most don't see protests as doing much. We also lost all ability and generational knowledge to actually organise so yeah protests sadly aren't going to do much of not coordinated with organizing. It's why occupy movement went no where. We are going to need a social revolution before we can vote to have a political revolution. Neoliberalism atomized our individuality to the point that e can no longer organize effectively at all.
The organisational "high ground" of the protest scene here last October was entirely run by white middle-class Boomers who insisted every communication be done on Facebook. Even Telegram was shocking, shocking, "we'll all be haxxed". Its now slightly better due to fragmentation. The Western world is generations away from being able to organise effective protests, much less a counter-elite or a revolution. Happily, recent immigrants are less intellectually captured, and more technologically literate.